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Head of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT) Commissioner General Boy Rafli Amar echoed Indonesia's commitment to the global efforts to prevent and eradicate terrorism funding.

In fact, Indonesia is currently striving to become a full member of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), he noted through a statement, Monday.

After a conference that discussed terrorism prevention and funding in India, Amar also echoed Indonesia's readiness to cooperate with countries in mitigating terrorism funding.

The government is responsible to give space for non-profit organizations in Indonesia to grow and create a healthy sector, he explained.

Amar also underscored the importance of having in place a strong regulation framework and monitoring toward non-profit organizations that exist, including in Indonesia.

Strong regulation becomes important, as terrorism funding in Indonesia usually comes from fund abuse from non-profit organizations on the pretext of providing goods and services.

Meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized the importance of international cooperation in eradicating the crime of terrorism, including its funding.

Earlier, the Indonesian and Canadian governments established terrorism mitigation cooperation with the inking of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the G20 Summit on Wednesday.

The MoU was signed by BNPT and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD).

"The MoU inking with Canada became a milestone that strengthens the cooperation on terrorism handling that has been established thus far," Amar noted through a statement, Saturday.

Canada is an important partner for Indonesia in terrorism mitigation. The MoU inking was founded on the Indonesia-Canada Plan of Action 2022-2025, he stated.

The cooperation involves information exchange, improvement of capacity and sound practices that the two parties have carried out as well as expert-level meeting.  (Antaranews)

The Industry Ministry adopts the in-company training system that has been implemented by Germany in Indonesia to produce competent workplace master trainers.

Under the in-company training system, workers are trained by professional trainers in accordance with the German Ordinance on Trainer Aptitude (AEVO).

"The benefit of this system is that companies can produce competent manpower that truly meet the companies' demand and need," Head of the Industry Human Resources Development Agency (BPSDMI) Arus Gunawan noted through a statement, Sunday.

"This can save cost, time, and manpower in the recruitment process," he added.

The ministry's BPSDMI was actively involved in the formulation of the Vocational Education and Training Development National Strategy as a derivative from Presidential Regulation No. 68 of 2022.

This encompasses the provision of workplace trainers as one of the main aspects of vocational education and training.

"The demand for workplace trainers is estimated to rise, especially since the Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadinda) across Indonesia can provide in-company trainer training service," he remarked.

To support the provision of workplace trainers in Indonesia, the ministry has organized master trainer training that aims to train and produce workplace trainers in Indonesia.

"This program is done in collaboration with the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Indonesian Kadin (Chamber of Commerce and Industry), IHK Trier Partnership Program (German), GIZ-TSR (German), and Swisscontact's S4C Program (Switzerland)," Gunawan noted.

The training has 16 participants, who are the best Ausbildung der Ausbilder International Basic (AdAIB) training graduates from various regions, and the selection process is quite stringent.

"For five days, participants are trained by Senior Masters, and there will be an exam at the end of the training," Head of BPSDMI's Industry Vocational Education Development Center (PPPVI) Restu Yuni Widayati stated.

According to Widayati, the requirement to become a Workplace Trainer through the program is to be a permanent worker, be healthy, and have training methodology and technical competence.

Moreover, they must be appointed by their managers and understand internship regulation.

"Workplace trainers are also in charge of intern selection, intern work flow plan formulation, and vocational training material implementation in companies, so that the interns' quality meets the expectation," she explained.

After participating in the activity, participants will receive assignments as instructors in workplace trainer training in Indonesia.

"To this end, participants are expected to prepare themselves, continue to strengthen cooperation, and be supportive of one another. This is because Master Trainer is part of the Industry Vocational Education ecosystem," she remarked. (Antaranews)

The 15th Bali Provincial Sports Week officially opened on Sunday (November 20) evening, with 4,416 athletes competing in 41 sports branches, including football, futsal, badminton, and martial arts.

"The 15th Bali Provincial Sports Week is being attended by 4,416 athletes consisting of 2,697 male and 1,719 female athletes. They are competing for 1,862 medals in 41 sports disciplines," Bali Province's National Sports Committee (KONI) Chairperson, I Gusti Ngurah Oka Darmawan, remarked here on Monday.

The 15th Bali Provincial Sports Week in 2022 was opened at the Niti Mandala Renon Field, Denpasar, and coincided with the 76th Commemoration Day of the Battle of Margarana or the Puputan Margarana Day.

The province-level sports event in Bali will be closed on November 27, 2022.

"We hope that with the momentum of Puputan Margarana Day, athletes will learn the values of the heroes' struggle and the spirit of puputan (battle) through achievements in the field of sports," Darmawan remarked.

The prestigious sports event in Bali was opened in a lively manner by igniting the sacred fire with a torch.

Art and cultural performances were presented at the opening of the sports week in Bali that was attended by representatives from each district and city.

Badung District's representatives performed the traditional musical assemble gamelan baleganjur and danced on stage, followed by Bangli District's representatives, who sang a chanty (yel-yel), while Buleleng District's representatives gave a flutes-based musical performance gong suling.

Furthermore, the Denpasar contingent performed the traditional ensemble music gamelan, which was followed by performances from the districts of Jembrana, Gianyar, Karangasem, Klungkung, and Tabanan.

Meanwhile, Bali Governor I Wayan Koster, who opened the sports week, motivated the participating athletes to achieve the best.

"Bali has made an achievement, ranked 5th in the Papua National Sports Week (PON). Now, Mr. Darmawan should (target to) at least level or surpass these achievements," Koster said.

The governor also advised that the competitions be conducted with a spirit of sportsmanship, excitement, and enthusiasm, so that a greater number of best athletes from Bali will emerge. (antaranews)

China reported a slight decline in new COVID-19 cases on Saturday as numerous cities battled outbreaks, and as restaurants and other businesses in Beijing shut after authorities urged people to stay home over the weekend.

Authorities have recently sought to ease the impact of their tough zero-COVID policy, which is battering the world's second-biggest economy and sowing frustration and anger as case numbers have risen to their highest since April.

Numerous businesses in Beijing's Chaoyang district, the capital's main business and diplomatic area, have shut or announced only limited services.

One restaurant owner in the nightlife hub of Sanlitun told Reuters that authorities had told him and other outlets in the area to close for three days from Saturday.

A major office complex in the nearby Dongcheng district said Chaoyang residents should not come to work from Monday and staffing levels would be reduced by 30%.

The outlying Beijing districts of Fangshan and Huairou announced additional testing requirements for people entering from other provinces.

Beijing reported 79 symptomatic and 436 asymptomatic cases for Friday, down from 100 symptomatic and 366 asymptomatic cases the previous day, government data showed.

Beijing authorities are on high alert in the hope of preventing the numerous Omicron variant outbreaks in other cities from spreading to the capital.

Liu Xiaofeng, deputy director of Beijing's municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told a news conference that case counts in each district of the capital continue to trend upward. By 3 p.m. (0700 GMT) on Saturday, the city had confirmed 395 confirmed cases, 56 of which were from people not in quarantine.

Nationwide, the authorities reported 24,263 daily domestically transmitted cases, of which 2,055 were symptomatic and 22,208 were asymptomatic, down from 25,129 the previous day.

That is approaching the highs when the authorities locked down Shanghai, China's financial hub and most populous city, earlier in the year.

This time, however, the cases are distributed across many cities, where authorities are weighing the costs and benefits of loosening policies that have damaged businesses.

Guangzhou, a city in the south of nearly 19 million people, reported 269 new domestically transmitted symptomatic cases and 8,444 asymptomatic cases, compared with 255 symptomatic and 8,989 asymptomatic cases a day before, authorities said.

Guangzhou authorities recently announced they would build facilities with more than 250,000 hospital beds to cope with the rising cases. This week, residents staged a protest in defiance of strict lockdown policies.

The manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou reported 182 new symptomatic locally transmitted COVID infections and 1,385 asymptomatic cases, compared with 107 symptomatic and 1,556 asymptomatic cases a day before, according to government data.

Lockdowns in the city sent some workers fleeing from a factory operated by Apple iPhone manufacturer Foxconn. Authorities have responded by offering low-level officials and residents cash bonuses on top of wages if they stay on the production lines. (Reuters)